re: #781 Anymouse

Back during the founding of the Bill of Rights, it was the Danbury Baptists in Connecticut who argued strenuously for a wall of separation between Church and State.

In their day, the Baptists were jailed, exiled, fined, and even killed for their faith by Congregationalist-controlled colonial governments.

They forget their history, and a turn in the future could see them in that position again.

Freedom of (and from) religion is absolute, or it is not freedom.

Yeah, well good luck with trying to remind them - the problem most politically-minded “evangelicals” in this country seem to have with the “separation of church and state” is that they think it’s a really bad idea, and ought, as a principle, be replaced by a more “Godly” form of government: i.e. a quasi-theocracy run as a “Herrenvolk Democracy”. With themselves as the permanently-ensconced “Herren”